Near future: a lot of cool shit lots of people here will get to see
Far future: a lot of cool shit most people here won't get to see
I can feel I got a good, heavy poop coming up. So that's something to look forwards to.
I don't think we will have much of a future if we carry on as we are.
I'll get my degree in Computer Science in 2020, I'll find ways to make a good living with the skill set, I'll find somebody to love, raise 2 kids at most with them, but assuredly I'll still be depressed and anxious to some degree since it's how my body works while wearing a mask of confidence and kindness.
near future: some of us die
far future: all of us die
Local: I'm not gonna be doing road calls after hours anymore
Regional: Suburbia's gonna encroach on my countryside hermit lifestyle within ten, fifteen years.
National: Trump fucks everything up.
World: [i]I dont want to set the woooorrrllldd ooonnn fiiirrreee...[/i]
There is a US submarine the submarine sinks and 5 years later is when the wreckage is found they recover only 26 bodies from the wreckage they are all missing their index fingers on both hands
Well, my first prediction came true. Time for a new one!
A NATO or Russian jet will be shot down over Syria by Russia or NATO, and angry words will be had but nothing will happen.
35 years old, thrice divorced, eating a steady diet of government cheese and living in a van down by the river
Hyper-realistic, superimmersive VR games become incredibly popular and widespread (at least in the west) - 10 years (15 tops)
Trump won't get impeached but he won't be re-elected and the next president will go about reversing the damage he did wether it be Democrat or Republican
[QUOTE=Svinnik;52406898]nothing good[/QUOTE]
Only pain and suffering.
increasing gap between the rich and the poor
unemployment
political apathy
delusional, misguided extremism
terrorist attacks
ethnic persecution
global climate disaster
starvation
mass migration
resource shortage
nuclear warfare
most likely in that order
Opportunity.
Hopefully me not working in a kitchen anymore
More Wolfenstein
More Trash Anime
global: world goes full-on cyberpunk dystopia in many places, maybe if we're lucky transitions to post-cyberpunk civilization with better tech and human rights/laws in the aftermath
for me: finish college in a few years, get working in my field of choice (cybersecurity) live my life well.
For the near future (let's say 80-90 years): I don't think there will be significant changes, some minor improvements for the daily life at best. Of course there will be some exceptions, like new vaccines and previously fatal diseases becoming treatable. Also probably the first attempts to merge the virtual world with reality.
For the far future: machines and software in every inch of your house. We will be overwhelmed by information, and we will have Facebook adds popping up directly in our corneas. Someone will ask himself why so many people still feel lonely if internet is supposed to be the tool to bring us all together.
Sadly, no time travel to the past. If that were possible, someone with exotic clothes would have materialized in front of us warning about our disasters, regardless of the result this action could generate.
...And for popular curiosity and amusement, we will have historical records saying how 1200 years ago the world was amazed by fidget spinners and frequent virtual tendencies called memes.
Lag and keyboards/mouses suddenly not working are still an excuse when you lose in a competitive game, even if in the year 3200 you have a new way to make connections at high speed and your mouse wires are made of a powerful self regenerative metal only bested by your neighbour Terminator.
The new virtual-reality interface could make our life a lot simpler, at the point of being lazy.
Any bodypart can be repaired or replaced with technology, but no one will fix your eyelashes occasionally lodging in your eyeballs.
Elementary grade schools teaching classical oriental animation as a last effort to encourage a more varied and decent usage. Every 'where is Waldo' book will be renamed 'where are the 7 JoJo references'.
A Chosen One will try to replicate the so called memes for nostalgia, spreading this fortuitous event worldwide, causing a chain reaction, repeating the process and causing a loophole.
hopefully: colonization followed by militarization of space followed by Space Vietnam or something equally rad
all US gun control repealed and the proponents of said gun control only allowed to own Hi-Points, Jennings, and Ravens for the rest of their lives
the ak107 or the an94 make it to the US market
Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan get stable governments that end the instability in the region as well as the refugee crisis and oil crisis
probably:
rights curbed for "protection" around the world
African population explodes into either a semi-developed society following Chinese heavy investment or into the biggest screwup on the planet
South African civil war (50/50 shot)
EU splits or breaks
the next Middle Eastern War (Qatar?)
Bitcoin crash
Hyper-left president elected following Trump's 8 years who undoes most of his stuff and makes sure that we get the high-tax free-college legal-weed gun-controlled Socialist Paradise™ that everyone under 24 has always wanted (repeat vice versa for the next guy)
people [I]really[/I] try to get self-driving cars to be the only way to buy a car
A lot of companies try to regulate speech under the guise of removing extremist content (see google right now)
hopefully not:
any civil war in the US, small or large
Constitution amended to be worse
Europe has another land war (pls no)
another large terrorist attack on American soil
mass shooting by someone with an iq more than 90
internet fast lanes and ads everywhere
what the future holds? probably this
[video]https://www.youtu.be/-X079aEWKlw[/video]
Google will be hated by international government and NGOs due to their advertisement manipulation and privacy invasion.
They will face a lot of lawsuits.
There will be one last glorious day, then Facepunch will be no more.
[QUOTE=Barnek;52408846]For the near future (let's say 80-90 years): I don't think there will be significant changes, some minor improvements for the daily life at best. Of course there will be some exceptions, like [b]new vaccines and previously fatal diseases becoming treatable. Also probably the first attempts to merge the virtual world with reality.
For the far future: machines and software in every inch of your house. We will be overwhelmed by information, and we will have Facebook adds popping up directly in our corneas. Someone will ask himself why so many people still feel lonely if internet is supposed to be the tool to bring us all together.[/b]
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All of this will happen in the next 30 years easily. I don't think many of you understand just how fast technological progress has become. We've already accomplished an entire 20th century's worth of discovery from 2000-2010 (I'm not joking). We're on the cusp of the next "big thing" in computing, which is likely going to be an explosion of VR/AR onto the mass-market. In 10 years it'll be no more weird to have a high-quality VR headset in your home than it is to have a game console.
Think about it: 10 years ago to this day (June 28, 2007) was the [b]LAST[/B] day in history that smartphones didn't exist. The following day, the iPhone was released, which was the first mass-marketed, highly successful commercial smartphone. Over the next few years, EVERYONE in the west got one. 10 years later, and they're damn near ubiquitous. You would be hard pressed to find someone without a smartphone. Even a large number of people in poverty have them nowadays. I think the same thing will happen soon with VR/AR technologies, with things like VR headsets and wearable AR glasses and such.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;52410310]All of this will happen in the next 30 years easily. I don't think many of you understand just how fast technological progress has become. We've already accomplished an entire 20th century's worth of discovery from 2000-2010[/QUOTE]
Definitively. Technology is exponential nowadays and one day of new info on internet worths entire libraries.
The only condition that prevents me to think in a shorter time span is how new technology is effectively projected depending of its use. Could be instant as the smartphone or could take decades like finding a way to replace coal/fossil fuel and make it worldwide.
To roughly explain it (maybe with a wrong example but just to give the idea), more or less like 1970 portraying the new millenium with dynamic buildings, smart houses and hovercars.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;52410310]All of this will happen in the next 30 years easily. I don't think many of you understand just how fast technological progress has become. We've already accomplished an entire 20th century's worth of discovery from 2000-2010 (I'm not joking).[/QUOTE]
how do you even define a century's worth of technological progress
(electronic) computers didnt even exist prior to the 1940s
VR has the still yet-unsolved problem of a fixed focal distance causing VR sickness which is only remedied in very experimental and (as of right now) pretty shitty research headsets, which makes it impractical for the use case of productivity
it'll happen eventually, but smartphones are an expensive mishmash of the best of various technology that just happen to fit together and there is no reason to expect a similar major information revolution to happen anytime in the next few years at least
All of it is just an accumulation of hard work and research, and many of the "new" things people are looking forward to like self-driving transportation, self-learning algorithms and VR have a very long and bumpy road ahead
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52412078][B]how do you even define a century's worth of technological progress[/B]
(electronic) computers didnt even exist prior to the 1940s
VR has the still yet-unsolved problem of a fixed focal distance causing VR sickness which is only remedied in very experimental and (as of right now) pretty shitty research headsets, which makes it impractical for the use case of productivity
it'll happen eventually, but smartphones are an expensive mishmash of the best of various technology that just happen to fit together and there is no reason to expect a similar major information revolution to happen anytime in the next few years at least
All of it is just an accumulation of hard work and research, and many of the "new" things people are looking forward to like self-driving transportation, self-learning algorithms and VR have a very long and bumpy road ahead[/QUOTE]
It's been a while, but I believe a large part of it was average processing power capable of machines at the time
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